4 Quick + Simple Things You Can Do Right Now For a Crazy Productive 2018

4 Productivity Tips for a Crazy Productive 2018

There are three things I am pretty well known for.
1 – Being the tallest person in the room.
2 – Being able to make inappropriate jokes about anything.
3 – Being the planning queen.

I take my planning so seriously that I even created my own darn blog + biz planner (grab yours here now) because there wasn’t one that did what I wanted.

So over these next few weeks, as we are ramping up to eating all the turkey and planning all the things season, I wanted to share some of my favourite planning and productivity tips with you all (including my favourite short-cut for creating champagne content on a beer time-frame!)

Productivity Tip #1: Themes

My first one, I started over ten years ago and at one point at Drop Dead Gorgeous Daily, we were doing five to six blog posts a day.

That was five to six pieces of unique content a day and we always had to come up with something new and fresh.

This is a problem, even when you’re not doing five or six pieces a day.

You spend all your time doing everything else and then it comes to content creation time and you’re like, “Oh, um, what am I going to write about? Uh … uh … post it note. All right. I’ll write about how great post-it notes are.”

And you end up creating something that’s really mediocre and it doesn’t serve you or your audience and it’s a waste of everybody’s time.

Having monthly themes was one way we were able to stay fresh with our content and come up with so many ideas.

If you have a business that has promotions or launches or you’re selling or you have products that sell better at certain times or your product is seasonally based. Then having a monthly theme will really help your biz.

You’ll find that if you sit down, break that piece of paper into 12, and think about what is a theme?

What kind of topics should you be talking about in that month?

If you’ve got your launches mapped out as well, then you can plan your themes around those.

Tip number one is to go and create monthly themes for your content, and for your business.

It doesn’t just have to be about content, it can be about what you’re doing in that month.

I like to also have a bit of a regular flow, where we’re like, one month is setting up a launch, and then it’s running a launch and then it’s a break month and repeat that every quarter.

If you sit down, and you create this nice rhythm, it just makes it easy. You turn up at the start of January, and you go, “I know what I’m doing this month. I know what I’m talking about this month.”

Productivity Tip #2: Recycle

Next, I want you to go and find a piece of content and this doesn’t have to be blog posts, because I know not everyone here does blog posts, maybe you do videos, maybe you’ve done a really great Instagram post, or a really nice long form Facebook, or a Facebook Live.

Do you have any productivity tips that work for you when you need to be super productive? Let us know below!

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COMMENTs:

Alexandra

December 18th, 2017 at 7:07 pm

Hi Kate,
I’m happy to inform you that this post is featured in the recent part of TimeCamp’s weekly Productivity Articles roundup! Find “Productivity Articles: Get Ready for 2018! 10/12/2017” on https://www.timecamp.com/blog/.
Thank you for sharing these excellent productivity and time management tips!
Alex Rybacka, SM Manager at TimeCamp

Hi Kate, Your tip about repurposing content is important. Many (especially bloggers) just write a post and completely forget about it a few months later. It is best to keep track of what type of content does well, and which one piece did extraordinarily better than the rest. You can then use that piece and turn it into a video (or videos) and publish them on YouTube, Facebook, and even Instagram (if you slice it up). Maybe even make an infographic and share it on Pinterest. The point is there is a lot to do with one piece of content that has proven to have done well over time. Thanks again for this great post!

SBB Team

February 10th, 2018 at 2:16 am

So glad you enjoyed the blog post Stefan! It’s really important to keep track and re-purpose what popular content, it can save so much time 🙂 Lauren x